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In Bahrain:
Victims of Torture are still suffering
No Impunity for Torturers
Geneva – 11 May 2005
Presented By
• Bahrain Center for Human Rights
• The National Committee for Martyrs and Victims of Tortures
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I - The National Committee for Martyrs and Victims of Tortures
Introduction
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II - Victims Testimonies
The following are few cases, among
many, of torture victims in Bahrain.
These individuals, males and females,have been suffering either directly or
indirectly from the practice of torture by
Bahrain authorities in the past.
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II - Victims Testimonies
Case I : Nooh Khalil Al Nooh
– Died in custody, allegedly under torture
– July 1998 Case II : Dr. Hashim Alalawi
– Died in custody allegedly under torture
– July 1986
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II - Victims Testimonies
Case III : Hanan
– Subjected to torture in custody
– November 1998 Case IV : Hussain
– Subjected to torture in custody
– November 1998
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III - Name of most Famous BahrainiTorturers
Name of alleged Torturers Protected By “Low 56”:
– Ian Henderson - Abdul Azia Atyatollah Al-Khalifa
– Hassan Isa Al-Hassan - Mohammed Jassim Al-Thwadi
– Abdul Salam Al-Ansari - Abdullah Moh’d Jaber Al-Mosalam – Rabegh Hamad Senan - Nasser Moh’d Jaber Al-Mosallam
– Farooq Al-Mawdeh - Abdullah Khalifa Al-Mawdeh
– Isa Moh’d Al-Dossari - Adel Jassim Flaifel
– Mahmood Al-Aakoori - Hamad Jaber Al-Khalifa – Khaled Al-Wazan - Abdulrahman rabegh Senan
– Khaled Al-Mawdeh - Khalifa AL-Khalifa
– Ibraheem Thani - Abdullrahman Saqar Al-khalifa
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III - Name of most Famous BahrainiTorturers
Name of Torturers (cont.):
– Ibraheem Thani - Abdullrahman Saqar Al-khalifa
– Mohammed Al-Timaeemi - Mohammed Jassim Al-Thwadi
– Shamssan - Abdullah al-Fadhel
– Khalifa Ahmed Al-Khalifa - Ahmed Yousef
– Khaled Al-Shooroqi - Deaj Al-Naham
– Abdullah Ali Rashed - Adnan Bahar
– Abdullah Bu Sheehri - Mohammed Ali Al-Dhahei
– Abdul Azia Bu Cheeri - Nader Al- Dosari – Abdulnabi Malallah - Adnan Al-Dhaen
– Bader Al-Fodhaleh - Sayed Baqer Al-Wedaai
– Adnan Hazeem -Abdullah Al-kebasi
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III - Name of most Famous BahrainiTorturers
Name of Torturers (cont.):
– Mohammed Awaide - Isa Al-Mosallam
– Rasheed - Sallah
– Aziz - Abdul Adheem
– Abdullah Abu Al-qassim - Abdulhaleem Al-Dhahri
– Mohammed Ameen
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III - Examples of alleged torturerswho has been promoted
– Abdul-Aziz Ateyyat Alla Alkhalifa:
Formally: Head of security Committee during the Nineties
disturbancesCurrent Minister for National Security
Abdullrahman Bin-Jaber Al-khalifa:
Formally: Head of State Security Court
Currently head of Public Prosecution Office
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IV - Protests and Demonstrations
Victims of tortures in Bahrain are still suffering;
however they are still demanding their basic rights. All
what they need is to return back to their normal lives
with dignity, justice, and sense of security
Enter
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IV – Harassments against members of the committee
AbdulRauf Alshayeb, the committee speaker, was arrested twodays after participation in UN Commission for human rights I
Geneva. He was accused publicly of moral misconduct, which was
later changed to interning a house without the permission of the
owner, facing a sentence of an six months imprisonment.
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IV – Cases of torture rejected by court
in 2003/2004, eleven victims of torture made an attempt, with the
help of prominent lawyers, to take their cases to court but was the
cases were rejected by the public prosecutor
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V – Committee’s Petition, signed by33,000, submitted to a representative of the King of Bahrain
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VI - Forms filled by 7,000 Victims of torture
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VII - Recommendations
Nullification of Royal Decree 56-2002, that grants impunity tothose accused of practising torture.
A full and impartial Investigation into all cases of murder andtorture by a neutral national committee acceptable to the
general public, consisting of judiciary individuals, andrepresentatives of human rights organizations and politicalsocieties.
Survivors of torture and their family members should be
entitled to bring civil claims for the physical and psychologicalharm they suffered as a result of torture and ill treatment, andshould be entitled to, among any other remedies,compensation and rehabilitative care.
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Recommendations
The government of Bahrain should provide in its penal code
for all forms of torture, fully incorporating all elements of the
definition contained in article 1 of the Convention.
We recommend that the government of Bahrain shouldestablish machinery for a systematic review of interrogation
rules, methods and practices, particularly in police premises,
in order to honour its commitments under article 11 of the
Convention.
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Recommendations
The Government of Bahrain should introduce real reforms to
its penal code, particularly with regard to the reduction of the
excessive powers granted to the executive by certain
legislative provisions and the length and conditions of police
custody and administrative detention as well as those old
articles that violates the human rights.
We recommend that, while paying particular attention to the
protection of the rights of persons arrested and detained, the
State party should intensify the educational, training andinformation programmes provided for in article 10 of the
Convention, for all the officials concerned.
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Recommendations
We recommend that the Bahraini authorities should undertake
and expedite serious investigations into the conduct of the
police forces in order to establish the truth of the many
allegations of acts of torture and, if the results of the
investigations are positive, bring the persons responsible
before to the courts and issue and transmit to the police
specific and clear instructions designed to prohibit any act of
torture.
The government should reopen the non-governmentalcommittee that had been dissolved recently specifically the
Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR).
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Recommendations
We recommend that the government should allowed a neutral
human right committee to make a sudden visits for the jails,
custodies, detentions and any other places where the
authorities keep detainees.
We recommend that the government should fire all those
colonels, officers, civilians that were accused of practising
torture and investigations under the State Security Act of
1974.
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Recommendations
We recommend that the government of Bahrain should give
full statistical information about the number of detainees from
the 1974 until 2000 as well as the number of those killed
under torture.
We recommend that the government of Bahrain should
compensate those families lost their relatives under torture or
through the excessive force used by the riot police.